A Very Short Christmas StoryNora’s eyelids drooped and her cracked teacup gently tilted to one side, spilling the warm contents over her flannelette nightgown.A strange hollow sound is heard over the pinecones crackling in the fireplace’s smoldering coals.Her husband’s gentle voice filters through the cold house. It drifts from upstairs while his steps pad down the creaking flight of stairs.

Short scary stories: A nine story horror collection; each tale published between 2004 and 2009 in UK and USA print magazines.Ice Maidens of Rattling Brooke - An artist searches for Newfoundland landscapes to paint, and discovers one iceberg's makeup is far different than the rest.Terror Time - Two kids find out that they may have been adopted by more than a mother and father.The Glass Cross - A home that is a tough sell bears a cross that shatters peoples lives....

From Douglas E Wright comes a supernatural tale of love, loss, and mortality.They watch . . .A few years from retirement, Crozier Buck wants nothing more than to spend his remaining days in the dead letter department, out of sight, out of mind in the building’s basement.They wait . . .In the dead letter department, something is waiting for Crozier . . . something that doesn’t recognize his unrealized abilities, something tha...

In 'Sweet Things' you'll find some holiday treats from Douglas E. Wright as he presents five chilling stories and one offbeat Santa tale that is sure to put fans in the right mood, no matter the season.This book also has two of Doug's hits: TWO LEFT FEET which was a contest winner and his environmental tale: HALLOWEEN SNOW.☞ A young family discovers that their plumbing issues may have a sinister origin.☞ When tragedy strikes, two siblings learn the family business i...

A scary story collection of short tales published in various magazines in the UK and USA between 2004 and 2009.Soul Mates - A woman searches for a lover only to find him in a haunted house.Crimson Hearts - A woman waits for her long-lost love to return so she can capture his heart forever.Cassandra's Playground - A child finds graveyard playmates after her mother is kill...

A short collection of ghost stories from author Douglas E Wright. Each story is just long enough for the train ride home, going to work, on the bus or a subway train ... or just before you fall asleep in your dark compfy quiet room!Soul Mates - A woman searches for a empathetic lover only to discover him now in her long-abandoned house.Cassandra's Playground - A child finds graveyard playmates after her mother dies.

SHORT SCARY HALLOWEEN STORIES☞ HALLOWEEN SNOW ~ Two young girls realize that the playing in the magical Halloween snow comes with frightful and deadly consequences.☞ HALLOWEEN TREATS ~ Two brothers try to avoid a fictitious neighbourhood candy monster on Halloween night.☞ BREATHING IN THE PAST - To his amazement, delight and horror, a man mysteriously returns to his teenage years on Halloween to speak with his dead parents.

You sit down at the weathered harvest table to write a letter to your son. You need to explain the horrific events of the night, the circumstances that stained your hands with so much blood - the horrors that led you to take the lives of your own father and grandfather. You journey back through darkness, deliberately, tentatively, to recover your own childhood. You compose your captivity, your torture, and the brutality of the men youve just killed. This was life on the farm: the strange ...

Our world is not as safe and secure as we believe. There are hunters out there, watching us, stalking us, waiting for their moment to strike. They are the predatory kind. Joe McKinney has brought together ten tales of horror and supernatural suspense by some of the todays top thriller writers, including: Scott Nicholson, Joseph Nassise, Simon Wood, Maria Alexander, Lucius Shepard, Nate Kenyon, Kealan Patrick Burke, Lisa Morton and Jeremy C. Shipp

This Christmas the holiday spirit is under threat and only a special stray can save it!The name's Ginger, AKA Agent Meow 01. Usually, I spend my free time searching for scraps and getting chased by dogs, like the stray cat that I am.But this Christmas, everything changes.When the dog agents from PAWs mess up and leave the human world hanging by a thread, it's Ginger to the rescue. With my combination of brains, stealth, and daring, I'm the agent the...

In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Left-Handed Woman, a young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother.One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, sh...

**The New York Times bestselling sequel to Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli’s modern-day classic Stargirl, now an original film on Disney+!And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!**Love, Stargirl picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," i...